Michael Douglas has told how his throat cancer tumour has shrunk and "likes his odds" of beating the disease.

The Hollywood star is nearly halfway through an eight-week course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. And he said he is choosing to believe what the doctors tell him as he clings to the success rate of up to 80% for his kind of cancer.

Douglas, 65, added: "I like my odds. I'm not dealing with mortality issues until they tell me, 'Oops, we have to go back and do surgery' or something like that. The tumour is shrinking."